⁴Today, news arrived that, in connection with the latest German order
to hand over pelts, furs, and other warm underwear (in Lublin),¹²⁵ something
was done to the Germans’ dissatisfaction, and the members of the local
Judenrat were punished with a mad, outlandish and crazy punishment: they
were made to dance barefoot, without shoes, in their full complement, for
more than an hour in the kehillah courtyard. This happened on 7 January 1942.
January 1942
ARG I 848 (Ring. I/855)
Description: duplicate (2 copies), handwritten (U*), pencil, Yiddish, 148×210 mm,
22 sheets, 22 pages.
Edition based on the first copy of the duplicate, 11 sheets, 11 pages.
After 31 March 1942, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown. Testimony
“Lublin;” the Aktion in the Lublin ghetto in the second half of March
1942.
[1] Lublin
Suddenly, at midnight on 15 March,¹²⁶ the lights were turned on in the Jewish
district and the SD and the Ukrainians¹²⁷ surrounded Lubartowska Street.
123 Władysław Kunicki (1872–1941), teacher, active in the self-government, member and politician of the Polish Socialist Party. Owner of a middle school in Lublin, a freemason.
124 Tymczasowy Rząd Ludowy Republiki Polskiej (Provisional People’s Government of the Republic of Poland), formed in Lublin on the night of 6–7 November 1918, with Ignacy Daszyński as prime minister.
125 On pain of death. The order was issued on 25 December 1941.
126 It was March 16.
127 The Aktion in Lublin was conducted by the local SS and police forces as well as four companies of former Soviet Army soldiers in German service trained in the camp in Trawniki. The author calls this formation “Ukrainians.” See D. Silberklang, Żydzi i pierwsze deportacje z dystryktu lubelskiego, in Akcja Reinhardt, p. 55.
